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ALTEMUS’ MAGIC WAND SERIES 


ROMERO AND JULIETTA 

BY 

TUDOR JENKS 


With Illustrations by JOHN R. NEILL 



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Altemus* Illustrated 
MAGIC WAND SERIES 

By TUDOR JENKS 


The Magic Wand 
Romero and Julietta 
A Magician for One Day 
The Prince and the Dragons 
Timothy’s Magical Afternoon 
The Rescue Syndicate 


Copyright, 1905y by Henry Altemus 








CONTENTS 


CHAPTER I 

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The Wishing Ring.15 

CHAPTER II 

Adventures Among Grass Blades. 37 
CHAPTER III 

Among the Fairies.59 

CHAPTER IV 

The Grand Competition .... 79 
CHAPTER V 

A Honeymoon Chapter.101 






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ILLUSTRATIONS 


Frontispiece 

The Princess Julietta.17 

4 Soldiers, sailors, tinkers, tailors” 19 

On the balcony.23 

“One of those black and white 

spiders”.27 

The morning-glory vine.29 

44 A grasshopper hopping about”. 32 

44 The ground suddenly rose under 

her feet”.33 

44 She took off her shoes and 

stockings”.39 

44 Queer, shining little warriors ” 41 


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“ The thorns were not at all dan¬ 
gerous ”. 

“ She had a happy idea” . . . . 
‘‘A rusty, dusty, sticky spider’s- 

web”. 

“ Prince Romero was riding by 

Prince Romero. 

“ Nothing ever tasted so deli¬ 
cious ”. 

“ The Prince looked very blue” . 
“ ‘ We can give you a very gentle 

butterfly * ”. 

“The Prince seized Julietta’s 

hand ”. 

“ Dinora sprang to her feet” . . 
“ Some with camels and cara¬ 
vans ”. 

“ ‘ As for that, your majesty ’ ” . 
“ It proved to be just the right 

height”. 

“ Slashing wildly about” . . . . 
“ Crowned Julietta Queen of Love 

and Beauty ”. 

“A procession of small butter¬ 
flies” ... . 

“ Julietta hid it carefully away ” . 


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THE WISHING RING 

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Romero and Julietta 


15 


Not to 
Blame 


CHAPTER I 
THE WISHING-RING 

HERE was no 
carelessness 
on the part of 
the Princess’s 
companion. 
She was at her 
p o s t of duty, 
and she was not asleep. She 
was in no way to blame for the 
disappearance of the royal 
maiden, and no one was more 
puzzled by it. 

Of course it was difficult to 
account for the facts that at one 
moment the Princess and her 
companion were together, upon 
the balcony on the western side 
of the palace, and that in the 
ticking of a clock, the Princess 



The 

Princess 







16 

Romero and 

Dis¬ 

appears! 

was nowhere to be found. The 
Princess’s companion was very 
much distressed. She wept 
real tears, answered all ques¬ 
tions freely, offered to resign 
her place, and advised the King 
to order her to be imprisoned 
in the deepest, darkest, dullest, 
dreariest, dampest, and most 
depressing dungeon of the 
castle with orders to keep her 
there till the Princess should 
be found. Nothing could have 
been fairer than that . 

So the King, though at first 
very angry indeed, was com¬ 
pelled to believe the companion 
had nothing to do with his 
daughter’s disappearance, and 
had to look elsewhere for aid 
in solving the mystery. The 
whole thing was very annoy- 


A Puzzle 




Julietta 


17 


ing; not only was he sorry to 
lose his eldest and most beauti¬ 
ful daughter—he had only three 



in all—but her absence was 
most embarrassing. He had 
issued a proclamation not long 


A Loss 
and 


2 —B. 


An 

Embarrassment 





18 

Romero and Julietta 

A Grand 
Contest 

before, inviting all the most 
prominentand promising young 
Princes to come to a “ Grand 
Fair and International Contest 
for the Hand of the Heiress to 
the Kingdom,” and had re¬ 
ceived many acceptances. 
Nearly all the Princes had said 
they would be “perfectly de¬ 
lighted,” and now, unless the 
Princess could be found in time 
for the Fair—it would be very 
embarrassing. The King did 
not like to think about what 
would happen if the Princes 
thought that he was imposing 
upon them. He decided that the 
Princess must be found, at any 
cost of treasure,time,or trouble. 

But, although soldiers, sail¬ 
ors, tinkers, tailors, and jour¬ 
neymen printers scoured the 


She Must 
be Found 





























































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Romero and Julietta 


21 


face of the land, climbing lofty 
towers and descending into 
deep cellars, for many weary 
leagues from the palace- 
grounds, no trace or sign of Her 
Royal Highness, the Princess 
Julietta, appeared. 

It is not strange the searchers 
did not find her, for they were 
not looking in the right place. 
The Princess was not miles 
from her home. She was really 
at home all the while; for she 
never, during all her absence, 
went far outside of the palace- 
grounds. The reason they did 
not find her was because they 
overlooked her, the reason 
they overlooked her was be¬ 
cause she was so small, and the 
reason she was so small was 
because she had wished with¬ 
out thinking . 


Where 
is She ? 


A Foolish 
Wish 




22 


Romero and 


Her 

Birthday 


This story begins on the 
Princess’s eighteenth birthday, 
and among her presents was a 
plain gold ring from her Fairy 
Godmother. It was a Wishing- 
Ring—not a very strong one, 
for the Godmother did not like 
to trust the young Princess 
with too much power, but a 
Once-a-Day Wishing-Ring. 
The Princess had been care¬ 
fully warned to be cautious in 
her wishing, but as she was sit¬ 
ting there on the balcony-rail¬ 
ing with her companion, look¬ 
ing at the morning-glories, 
wondering at their beauty, and 
watching the bees visiting their 
cups, she had been led to think 
of the fairy tales she had read, 
and—without remembering her 
Wishing-Ring—she wished . 


A Wishing- 
Ring 




Julietta 


23 


Do you know what her wish 
was? She wished she was no 
bigger than a Fairy ! 

Now, it seems that Fairies are 



of different sorts and sizes, but 
the Princess must have been 
thinking of some of the smallest 
kinds, for when her wish acted 


A Small 
Wish 


All Kinds 












24 


Romero and 


Presto , she suddenly found herself re- 

Change duced to less than an inch in 
height; or, rather, it seemed to 
her as if everything but herself 
suddenly became gigantic and 
enormous. The morning-glory 
at which she happened to be 
gazing seemed in an instant ex¬ 
panded to an astonishing size, 
with a stem thicker than the 
Princess’s waist. 

The railing of the balcony, 
really only about three feet 
high, now seemed to her, as she 
sat upon its edge looking down¬ 
ward, a great precipice. She 
was made dizzy by the height, 
and carefully drew her legs 
back from the edge. Just as 
Julietta was withdrawing her¬ 
self from the side of the railing, 
the companion discovered that 


On the 
Edge 




Julietta 


25 


the Princess was no longer by 
her side, and started up in 
alarm, calling. 

Julietta answered, but of 
course her tiny voice was not 
heard, and she had to watch 
the companion bustling about 
and becoming more and more 
excited, without being able to 
make her hear. Soon the com¬ 
panion ran indoors, and the 
Princess was alone in her tini¬ 
ness. 

For a moment or two this 
seemed amusing. She laughed 
and clapped her hands. It was 
like a new kind of hide-and- 
seek. But when five, ten, fif¬ 
teen minutes passed, and no 
one came to the balcony, the 
Princess was tired of her new 
game. She rose to her feet, 


The 

Disap¬ 

pearance 


Not so 
Amusing 




26 


Romero and 


In 

Trouble 


and walked along the balcony¬ 
railing, meaning to go indoors. 
Well, no doubt you have 
guessed what the fairy-sized 
Princess now discovered. She 
could not get down from the 
top of the railing. Everywhere 
she came to an edge of the rail, 
and she had to be careful not 
to approach too near, for fear 
she might slip over. She was 
as helpless as a mariner on a 
desert island. She sat down to 
think over her situation, for the 
first time becoming a little 
alarmed about it. 

While thus reflecting she 
heard a queer scraping sound 
behind her. She jumped to 
her feet, and, as she turned 
about, saw one of those little 
black and white spiders that we 


A Big 
Spider 




Julietta 


27 


all have noticed making sudden 
dartings. Probably the spider 
was trying to find out what sort 
of insect the Princess was ; but 



as the spider looked as large as 
a bulldog and quite as fierce 
with its three rows of eyes, the 
Princess took to her royal heels, 


Curiosity 


Julietta 

Scared 









28 

Romero and 

A Way 
of Escape 

without any idea where she was 
going. 

She had not seen any way of 
escape from the railing so long 
as she had been merely puz¬ 
zled ; but now that she was 
really scared it hardly took her 
a minute to find a beautiful lad¬ 
der that led down to the ground 
—the morning-glory vine ! 

Luckily the Princess was a 
good gymnast, and found no 
great difficulty in climbing 
down the twisted stem. The 
only trouble about the feat was 
the dizziness coming from wind¬ 
ing round the spiral twists, and 
before long Julietta was seated 
on the ground at the foot of the 
vine, breathing hard, but very 
glad that she was out of sight of 
the black and white spider. 


Saved , 
for a Time 




Julietta 


29 


But, after all, was the Prin¬ 
cess better off than before? 

She soon saw that she was 
less likely to be found, and, in¬ 



deed, she hoped that none of 
the awkward searchers would 
come trampling about on the 
grass-plot—it would be most 


What 
Next ? 


New 

Dangers 













30 


Romero and 


In the 
Grass 


unfortunate to be stepped on 
by her rescuer. And if there 
was a spider on the railing, 
there were also various crea¬ 
tures in the grass. None had 
yet come very near, but the 
Princess could hear them now 
and then rustling through the 
great grass-blades four or five 
times as tall as herself. 

After resting to recover her 
breath, Julietta rose, and be¬ 
gan to push her way through 
the matted grass. It seemed to 
her as it would seem to us if we 
were struggling through an un¬ 
cleared forest, with fallen 
trunks of trees, mixed under¬ 
brush, and very rough ground. 

“ Oh, dear! ” said the Prin¬ 
cess to herself, “ I wish that I 
was on one of the paths ! ’’—and 


Difficult 

Country 




Julietta 


31 


just then, oddly enough, she 
found herself on the edge of one. 
But she didn’t try to walk on it, 
you may be sure, for since she 
had become so small the gravel 
path seemed a vast tract of 
boulders, most of which were 
as high as she was tall. It was 
far easier to push her way 
through the grass jungle. 

“ My goodness me !—Why ! 
what was that?” Julietta ex¬ 
claimed. A great green crea¬ 
ture, as big to her as a pony 
seems to us, had suddenly 
dropped from the sky, almost 
crushing her; and then, before 
she could see it clearly, the 
creature had shot away into 
the air again. It was several 
minutes before Julietta re¬ 
flected that this fearful bouncing 


On the 
Path 


A Great 
Creature 




32 


Romero and 


A 

Grass¬ 

hopper 


monster was nothing more ter¬ 
rible than a grasshopper hop¬ 
ping about over the lawn. 

“ I suppose,” she said to her¬ 



self, “ that a mouse would make 
me think him an elephant! I’m 
very glad there are no horses 
in the palace-yard; I don’t 


Other 

Dangers 













Julietta 


33 


know what I should think of an 
animal that had feet three times 
as tall as I am ! ” 

As the Princess thought of 



this, the ground suddenly rose 
under her feet, throwing her 
over. Her first idea was that 
there was an earthquake, for 


A Giant 
Indeed 


2—c. 


An 

Earthquake ? 










34 


Romero and Julietta 


What 
It Was 


she saw that the soil was 
cracked and broken ; but when 
she scrambled to her feet and 
looked about her, she saw that 
the disturbed and upturned 
earth was all in a single strip. 
She was quick-witted enough 
to guess that the passing of a 
mole had caused the raising of 
the ridge. 

“ There seems no lack of ad¬ 
ventures,” remarked the Prin¬ 
cess, “ if one is only small 
enough. I wonder if life is 
dull to giants, because there is 
nothing that can disturb them.” 


A Place of 
Adventures 




ADVENTURES 
AMONG GRASSBLADES 
















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Romero and Julietta 


37 


Good Fun 


CHAPTER II 

ADVENTURES AMONG GRASS- 
BLADES 

HE Princess, 
though now 
and then made 
a little uneasy 
by the queer 
happenings 
about her, really began to enjoy 
her journey in the palace-yard. 
Since she could not escape, she 
very wisely decided to find all 
the pleasure she could in her 
strange situation. She was be¬ 
coming bolder every moment, 
and felt all the excitement of 
being an explorer in an un¬ 
known land. She had very 
little idea where she was, not 
being able to see far amid the 
thick grass. 



No Outlook 
Ahead 







38 


Romero and 


Feels the 
Heat 


Goes 

A-Wading 


Walking made her warm, so 
when she came upon one of the 
flat saucers in which flower¬ 
pots set, and found it contained 
a little rain-water, she took off 
her shoes and stockings and 
enjoyed a cool and comfortable 
wade. But even this harmless 
pleasure was not without its 
dangers, she found; for while 
she was dabbling her pretty 
pink and white toes in the cool 
water, some great bird swooped 
down to take a drink, and, see¬ 
ing the little creature, took a 
sudden peck at her! Fortu¬ 
nately, the great beak missed 
the Princess, who struck at the 
bird and splashed the water 
with her feet until he flew away. 

After this brave exploit, the 
Princess was quite proud of 
herself. She began to ask 




Julietta 


39 


whether she might not have 
climbed up on the bird’s back, 
and have taken a journey 
through the air, as Sindbad the 



Sailor did with the eagle, in 
escaping from the Valley of 
Diamonds. But this pride was 
soon to have a fall. 


Beware of 
the Bird l 


Pride and 
Its Fall 















40 


Romero and 


Journey 

Resumed 


The Princess put on her 
shoes again, and resumed her 
journey. She was learning to 
make her way through the grass 
with less trouble, and kept a 
sharp lookout for the wild crea¬ 
tures of the grass-plot. She 
even took an interest in the 
doings of the smaller insects, 
and once spent a half-hour or 
so in watching a busy city of 
black ants, admiring their in¬ 
dustry and wondering at their 
stupidity. While she sat upon 
a lofty hillock some two or three 
inches high, overlooking the 
entrances to the black ants’ 
city, she saw one of the un¬ 
happy sides of insect life. A 
great throng of red-bodied ants 
came running out from the 
grass forest and attacked the 


New Sights 




Julietta 


41 


blacks. They pinched them 
with their jaws, tumbled them 
over, pulled them about, and 
after driving most of the black 



fellows to flight, the red villains 
carried many off to their own 
homes as slaves. The little 
robbers also entered the caves 


The 

Fierce 

Ants 


A Battle 













42 


Romero and 


Real 

Nature 

Study 


of the blacks, and stole their 
white and helpless fat babies. 

All this the Princess had read 
about, but it was a very dif¬ 
ferent matter to sit there and 
see the strife of these queer, 
shiny little warriors in their 
polished mail-coats. 

When, however, one of the 
red ants discovered the Prin¬ 
cess, and stretched out his 
feelers to see what she was, 
Julietta made up her mind that 
she was not ready to be attacked 
by an army of these little high¬ 
waymen, and again she pushed 
her way in among the thicker 
grass-stalks. 

By this time it was becoming 
dark, for the Princess’s change 
of size had taken place at about 
four o’clock. She began to be 


Evening 

Coming 




Julietta 


43 


hungry, and wondered how 
she was to find any dinner. 
On thinking it over, she re¬ 
membered throwing out some 
crumbs to the birds the day be¬ 
fore, and being disappointed 
because they were not eaten. 
There might be a few of these 
left, if she could only find her 
way toward the palace again. 

Keeping a sharp lookout, she 
soon found a group of weed- 
stems—thistles. To her the 
thorns were not at all dan¬ 
gerous, and they even served 
as steps to help her in climbing 
up to take an observation. 
When she had reached a height 
above the grass, she was able 
to see the palace, with its bal¬ 
cony, and, on descending to the 
ground, was able to reach the 


Meal 

Time 


Finding 
the Palace 




44 


Romero and 


She Finds 
Food 


roots of the morning-glory 
vines. Then, by keeping along 
the flower-bed, she before long 
discovered a few of the crumbs 
she had thrown to the birds the 
day before. Two tiny ones 
made her an ample dinner, and 
then, as it was growing quite 
dark, she had to select some 
safe place in which to sleep. 

She had a happy idea. The 
small watering-pot lay near her 
upon the flower-bed, where 
she had left it herself. As 
Julietta looked upon its great 
curving green walls, she de¬ 
cided that the watering-pot 
would make a splendid place to 
spend the night. If it had been 
standing up, she could not have / 
climbed into it; but, luckily for 
her, she had thrown it down 


Exploring 




Julietta 


45 


carelessly, and so could walk 
comfortably in, without the 
least difficulty. 



But there was no front door 
to lock, to keep out spiders and 


Nightfall 


Her 

Lodging 










4 6 


Romero and 


A Little other creatures that might come 
Fortress poking about; so she crept into 
the spout, and made her way 
along until she had entered the 
broader end. This was nicely 
ventilated by the small holes in 
the sprinkler, and the Princess 
brought some dried leaves, 
made herself a comfortable bed 
—and went to sleep. 

Toward morning she was 
awakened by finding herself 
dumped out of her bed of 
leaves. Her “house” had been 
picked up, and instantly Julietta 
guessed what had happened. 
She remembered that the gar¬ 
dener’s boy had been told to 
water the nasturtiums early in 
the morning before the sun was 
on them, and it was he who had 
taken up the watering-pot. 
Soon it was held under the 


Her Bedroom 




Julietta 


47 


faucet, and the water poured 
into it. The Princess was 
scared. She did not dare stay 
in the spout, and so slipped 



down into the rising flood, 
hoping that she could keep 
afloat by swimming until the 
water reached the edge. 


Another 

Fright 


A New 
Danger 















48 


Romero and Julietta 


She 

Escapes 


The gardener’s boy was care¬ 
less, let the water rise until it 
ran over, and the Princess was 
carried over and out upon the 
ground, where she luckily fell 
upon soft ground, and was not 
injured—but wasn’t she muddy, 
when she got up ! 

Now, this would never do at 
all. The Princess had been 
taught to be very neat, and so 
she made up her mind that she 
would wash her clothes. She 
knew her way about the gar¬ 
den pretty well now, and she 
kept along the edge of one of 
the gravel paths until she came 
to the fountain. Here she 
slipped off her gown, and gave 
it a good scrubbing in the 
basin, afterward hanging it up 
to dry over a stiff stalk of flow¬ 
ering grass. 


She Does 
Her Washing 





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While waiting for the gown 
to dry, Julietta walked around 
the border of the fountain, for¬ 
getting how nearly she had been 
snapped up by a bird the day 
before. All at once this was 
brought to her mind, for a 
bustling, fussing hop-about of 
a sparrow came sailing by, 
alighted on the fountain-brim, 
and suddenly made a peck at 
the Princess. 

She screamed like the tiniest 
of penny whistles, and, losing 
her footing, toppled over—not 
into the water, but right into the 
middle of a rusty, dusty, sticky 
spider’s-web. 

The fall did not hurt her at 
all, and she was thinking it 
only a good joke when, with a 
wicked rush, out came Mrs. 


Another 

Bird-Foe 


In a Web 




52 


Romero and 


A Grave Spider. Of course, the spider 
Peril did not know that the web had 

caught a live Princess, nor did 
she care. The Princess looked 
good enough to eat, and the 
spider thought so. Whenever 
Julietta struggled the spider 
would jump toward her, and 
throw cords about her till she 
could hardly move a muscle. 

And I am afraid this story 
would have ended right here 
except for Prince Romero. 

He was a real fairy prince, 
and it was only by the merest 
chance that he happened to be 
near enough to hear the cries 
for help that Julietta raised, 
hoping, perhaps, that the stupid 
gardener’s boy might hear her 
tiny little voice and rescue her 
from her danger. 


A Prince 
Appears 




Julietta 


53 


Prince Romero was riding by Out 
on his favorite dragon-fly when Riding 
the voice of one in distress 
reached his ears. It was 



enough. No one in trouble 
ever appealed to this gallant 
Prince in vain. He touched 
his steed upon the right, and 


A Gallant 
Hero 







54 


Romero and 


Mrs. 

Spider 

Retreats 


dashed fearlessly to the rescue. 
Hardly had the dragon-fly 
alighted when Prince Romero 
had drawn his sword, clam¬ 
bered over the edge of the web, 
and was slashing right and left 
at the threads. Mrs. Spider 
was not very brave. She could 
attack the unarmed Princess, 
but she dared not fix even one 
of her eight eyes on the flashing 
blade of the gallant fairy cham¬ 
pion, and so she retreated into 
the furthest end of her dark 
tunnel and grumbled that she 
did wish people would leave 
her nets alone, and let a poor 
widow make a decent living! 

Meanwhile, Romero had cut 
the last thread that bound 
Julietta, and, taking her in his 
arms, lifted her to the back of 


Julietta 

Saved 




Julietta 


55 


his faithful dragon-fly, and, ris¬ 
ing into the air, bore her away 
to his own land—that part of 
Fairyland near the Princess’s 
palace. 


Away to 
Fairyland 









V 











AMONG THE FAIRIES 



Romero and Julietta 


59 


In 

Fairyland 


CHAPTER III 
AMONG THE FAIRIES 

HEN the Prin¬ 
cess Julietta 
fully recov¬ 
ered herself, 
she found her¬ 
self attended 
by three of the most beautiful 
little ladies in waiting that ever 
dressed the hair of a fairy 
queen. They were removing 
all traces of the web from her 
skirt and waist, and when the 
Princess Julietta explained that 
she had left her gown to dry, 
they brought her a lovely fresh 
gown made from the feathers 
of a humming-bird. Even Ju¬ 
lietta’s finest and daintiest cos¬ 
tumes could not be so beauti- 



A New 
Gown 







60 

Romero and 

The 

Prince 

ful as the shining brightness of 
the little fairy gown they now 
brought for her delight. 


When she was made per¬ 
fectly comfortable and was 
arrayed in the beautiful hum¬ 
ming-bird costume, Prince 
Romero begged that he might 
come to inquire about her con¬ 
dition after her escape from 
the spider’s web. He soon 
saw that she was not seriously 
injured, but he complained that 
she seemed very pale. He in¬ 
quired how she had been so 
unlucky as to fall into the web, 
and thereupon the Princess told 
her story, for though the fairies 
had seen at once she was not 
one of themselves, they were 
too polite to ask who or what 
she was. 


Polite 

Fairies 




Julietta 


61 


The fairies were much 
amused by the helpless little 
mortal’s adventures, for they, 



having been small all their 
lives, were used to the state of 
affairs that had bothered her so 


A 

Helpless 

Mortal 


Always 

Small 





62 


Romero and 


Wings a 
Help 


Breakfast 

Time 


much. Besides, as Julietta 
pointed out to them, their wings 
made a great difference. Fairies 
could fly up in the air when¬ 
ever they wished to see where 
they were, and they could make 
long journeys without having 
to force their way through the 
tangled grass or piles of dead 
leaves. 

“ But there is one thing we 
have forgotten,” said Prince 
Romero, “ and that is Princess 
Julietta’s breakfast. She has 
had nothing to eat since early 
last evening. It is no wonder 
the poor young lady looks 
pale! ” 

Thereupon the little ladies in 
waiting were much distressed. 
They scurried away and busied 
themselves in preparing the 




Julietta 

63 

cutest, daintiest, most appetiz¬ 

What 

ing of fairy breakfasts. I don’t 

They 

know all the good things they 

Had 

had, but I do know that Julietta 




always said afterward that 
nothing ever tasted quite so 
delicious as that fairy food, 
served on rose-petals, in flower- 


Perfectly 

Delicious 








6 4 


Romero and 


After 

Breakfast 


cups, and handed about on the 
round, brown, acorn-top trays. 
When breakfast was over, 
Prince Romero said that Ju¬ 
lietta, instead of being pale, was 
now the very loveliest shade of 
pink he had ever seen, and 
then she became even pinker 
than before. 

At last the Princess said she 
thought it was time for her to 
go home, if she only knew how 
to regain her own size. 

“ Oh, as for that,” the Prince 
replied, “ nothing can be easier. 
Your ring is, as you know, a 
Wishing-Ring, and you have 
simply to wish yourself as you 
were.” 

“ But I have been trying 
that,” Julietta confessed; “and 
it has no effect at all. I don’t 


A Useless 
Ring 




Julietta 


65 


see what is the matter with the 
ring.” 

“There is no trouble with 
the ring,” the Prince answered, 



“ except that it takes a whole 
day—twenty-four hours—to 
collect enough power to carry 
out a wish. As soon as a wish 


2—E. 


The 

Trouble 


A Day 
Needed 

















66 


Romero and Julietta 


To be Big 
Again 


is made, the power is used up, 
and it takes a whole day before 
the magical ring can act again.” 

“Ah, I see,” said Julietta 
gratefully. “And then I sup¬ 
pose that sometime this after¬ 
noon I shall be able to be big 
again.” 

The Prince nodded. But it 
may be that he was not pleased 
to have the Princess become of 
mortal size again, for he looked 
very blue. Julietta noticed it, 
and she added : “I suppose I 
could wish myself small again 
the next day, if I liked ? Then 
I could come some day and 
visit you all as cosily as possi¬ 
ble, couldn’t I?” 

“ Why, of course,” the Prince 
exclaimed, brightening up. 
“ And meanwhile, how should 


The Prince 
Brightens 


































Romero and Julietta 


69 


you like to take a flight with 
us ? We can give you a very 
gentle butterfly, and make up a 
little party to go for a short fly 
out over the fields.” 

“ I should be delighted,” 
Julietta said, rising to her feet. 
“ Let us go to the stables and 
see the-” 

But all the fairies began to 
laugh. Then Prince Romero 
explained that the butterflies 
they rode in the daytime and 
the moths they rode after night¬ 
fall were never kept shut up. 
When the fairies wished to ride 
they went out and whistled to 
their pets, who came so eagerly 
that sometimes there would be 
a dozen fluttering about a single 
fairy. 

When they were ready to 


A Gentle 
Steed 


Calling a 
Butterfly 




70 

Romero and 

The 

Fairies' 

House 

start on their ride, and went 
out of the pleasant room where 
Julietta had been resting, the 
Princess discovered that these 
fairies lived in a little hollow at 
the foot of an old tree, but so 
cosily and comfortably was it 
furnished that she had taken it 
for a room in a fairy palace. 
Prince Romero whistled, the 
butterflies came in a cloud of 
color, and, having selected their 
steeds, the whole party rose 
into the air, and darted away 
out of sight, Princess Julietta 
feeling perfectly safe under the 
guardianship of the brave little 
fairy prince. 

During their sail, for it was 
like sailing, Princess Julietta 
explained that she would not 
be in so great a hurry to leave 

A Brave 
Guardian 





Julietta 


71 


her fairy friends except on her 
father’s account. She explained 
about the great contest for her 
hand, and told Prince Romero 
that it was open to any prince 
who cared to enter. She also 
told him that she wished he 
would enter the contest, for 
she liked him better than any 
of the princes she knew about, 
and had rather see him win. 

“But,” asked Romero, 
“ would you marry a fairy 
prince ?” 

“ If he were my own size,” 
said Julietta, “and my Wish- 
ing-Ring would easily bring 
that about.” 

I hope you won’t think all 
this was very forward on the 
part of the Princess; but the 
truth is that since she was 


The Great 
Contest 


A Bold 
Princess 




72 


Romero and 


Inviting 

Nice 

Princes 


bound to take any of the 
princes who should win in the 
competition for her hand, she 
thought she was right to ask 
the very nicest princes to enter 
the contest. I believe any of 
you would have done the same. 

At all events, that is what 
Julietta did, even making 
Prince Romero promise to en¬ 
ter the contest and do his best 
to win her hand. After this 
was once settled they gave their 
minds to enjoying the beauties 
of nature; but I think if you 
had been there you would have 
said that the Prince’s idea of 
enjoying the “beauties of na¬ 
ture ” was to look at the 
Princess, and her idea of the 
same thing was to look back at 
him. Still, they both had a most 


Beauties 
of Nature 




Julietta 


73 


delightful time, and so why 
should we complain ? 

Upon their return the ladies 
of honor all dismounted at the 
door of their tree palace, leav¬ 
ing their butterflies to fly wher¬ 
ever they chose; and then 
Prince Romero and Princess 
Julietta flew straight to the very 
balcony from which she had es¬ 
caped the day before. Alight¬ 
ing on the edge of the railing, 
they stood for quite a while 
trying to make up their minds 
to say good-bye. They had 
already spent about half an 
hour, and were not more than 
half through when the Prin¬ 
cess’s companion — the very 
same who had been with her 
at the time she disappeared— 
opened the door that led from 


The 

Return 


Bidding 

Good-bye 




u 


Romero and 


Farewell! 


the palace to the balcony. In¬ 
stantly the Prince seized Ju¬ 
lietta’s hand, and, kissing it most 
respectfully, leaped to the back 



of his waiting butterfly and was 
gone. 

As the Princess’s companion, 
the Lady Dinora, came from 


Lady 

Dinora 











Julietta 


75 


the doorway, Julietta was 
touched to see how sad she 
looked. 

“I would give most any¬ 



thing,exclaimed Dinora, “ if 
I could see my dear Princess 
again! ” And she sank into a 


Her Grief 


The Wish 













76 


Romero and Julietta 


Return chair, putting her handkerchief 

of the to her eyes. 

Princess Julietta seized this moment 
to wish herself once more in 
her usual size. Then she said 
softly, “Well, dear Dinora, all 
you need do is to take down 
your handker— ” but she 
could get no further. The voice 
was enough. Dinora sprang 
to her feet and in a moment the 
restored Princess was in her 
friend’s embrace. 


4 


Home 

Again 




THE GRAND COMPETITION 






















Romero and Julietta 


79 


Foundy 

Found! 


CHAPTER IV 

THE GRAND COMPETITION 

ITHOUT wait¬ 
ing even to 
ask any ques- 
tions, the 
Lady Dinora 
dashed away 
to spread the 
good news, crying, “ She’s 
found, she’s found—the Prin¬ 
cess is found ! ” And every¬ 
body told everybody else the 
same thing. 

Thereupon about a thousand 
searchers were sent out to re¬ 
call about a thousand other 
searchers, and meanwhile the 
Lady Dinora had returned. 
And the first thing she said 
to the Princess Julietta was: 



What 

Dinora Said 







8o 


Romero and 


The Fairy 
Gown 


“ My dear, where did you get 
that most beautiful gown?’’ 
for she could not help noticing 
the wonderful shiny, glittery, 
gorgeous, humming-bird cos¬ 
tume Julietta had brought from 
Fairyland. Dinora had never 
seen anything like it, for she 
had never noticed how beauti¬ 
ful were the marvelous little 
humming-birds. 

For the first time Julietta then 
remembered that she had left 
her own gown down by the 
border of the fountain. But 
before she could answer Di- 
nora’s question, there came the 
King and the Queen, and the 
dukes and princes and prin¬ 
cesses and pages, chamberlains, 
and lots of people of all ranks 
to express their joy and their 


Everybody 

Comes 




Julietta 


81 


gratitude over the wanderer’s 
return. 

And their joy was genuine, 
for Julietta, besides being a 
very beautiful and kindly prin¬ 
cess, was a thoroughly nice girl 
whom every one liked. All 
came crowding about her, anx¬ 
ious to know her story; and 
questions and answers became 
so mixed up that no one could 
hear anything plainly. Then 
the King interfered. He in¬ 
vited the whole company to ad¬ 
journ to the great audience-hall, 
where there was room for all, 
and then made the Princess tell 
her adventures over from the 
very beginning. The court was 
greatly interested, and some of 
the hasty courtiers wished to 
rush out at once and kill the 


2—F. 


A Nice 
Girl 


She Tells 
Her Story 




82 


Romero and 


Revenge 
on the 
Spider 


spider by the fountain; but this 
the Princess would not allow. 

“ The spider was not to 
blame,” she said; “she no 
doubt thought I was a new kind 
of insect. But I will go down 
soon and see what the little 
creature looks like.” 

The audience were dismissed 
and the Princess at last felt free 
to resume her quiet home life; 
and you may feel certain that 
she found her own comfortable 
bed more to her taste, if less 
romantic, than sleeping in the 
spout of a watering-pot on a 
bed of dry leaves! So that 
was the end of the Princess’s 
first outing, but it was not the 
last she saw of Prince Romero. 

She did not make another 
visit to Fairyland, for she was 


As to the 
Prince 




Julietta 


33 


very busy about the prepara¬ 
tions for the “ Grand Fair and 
International Contest for the 
Hand of the Heiress to the 



Kingdom.” The time for that 
great event was rapidly ap¬ 
proaching. Princes were arriv¬ 
ing every day from all four 


Prepara¬ 

tions 


Princes 

Arrive 











8 4 


Romero and 


How They 
Came 


quarters of the globe, and it 
was very interesting to see the 
strange cavalcades they brought 
with them. Some came with 
camels and caravans; some 
with sledges and sealskin coats; 
some with elephants and 
Ethiopians. To all were as¬ 
signed quarters either in the 
Palace or upon the Royal 
grounds. 

Julietta could not but be 
proud that so many noble 
young men were eager to secure 
her hand, but her heart was 
faithful to Prince Romero, and 
she looked every day for his 
arrival. 

But day after day went by 
without anything to prove that 
he had not forgotten her. 
Whenever a blare of trumpets 


Where is 
Romero ? 




Julietta 


85 


announced the coming of a new Will He 
prince the Princess Julietta Come? 

would hurry to the window 
hoping to see Romero and his 
followers. She was, however, 
always disappointed, and be¬ 
gan to believe he would not 
present himself. 

At last came the day for the 
Grand Contest. A broad field 
had been made ready, with 
long rows of seats for the 
people, and a magnificent pa¬ 
vilion at one end was decorated 
with flags and banners. Here 
the King and Queen sat upon 
a throne, with the Princess 
Julietta upon a smaller throne 
at one side, while all the loyal 
subjects thronged the seats, 
eager to witness the contest for 
the hand of the Princess. Pages 


The Contest 
Begins 




86 


Romero and 


A Great 
Circus 


in blue silk went about to dis¬ 
tribute programmes, and young 
girls in yellow satin sold flow¬ 
ers, bonbons, and fruits. Alto¬ 
gether it was much like a 
superb circus. 

Just as the sports were about 
to begin, the heralds having 
already puffed out their cheeks 
to sound their long trumpets, a 
flight of most brilliant butter¬ 
flies came in a long train toward 
the pavilion. At once all eyes 
were attracted, the heralds for¬ 
got to blow their trumpets, and 
the Princess knew that her 
Fairy Prince had arrived ! 

Accompanied by the whole 
Fairy Court, Romero presented 
himself before the King, and 
announced that he came, like 
the other princes, to compete 


Enter 

Romero 




Julietta 


87 


for the hand of Her Royal High¬ 
ness, Julietta. The King would 
not have been able to hear a 
word except that Prince Ro¬ 



mero had been thoughtful 
enough to alight upon the arm¬ 
rest of the throne. So graceful 
was the Fairy Prince and so 


A Com¬ 
petitor 


A Thoughtful 
Prince 








88 


Romero and 


His Size 

charming were his manners, 
that the King was much im¬ 
pressed in his favor; but he 
could not refrain from speak¬ 
ing of the great difference in 
size between the Princess and 
this new suitor. 

“As to that, Your Majesty,” 
was Romero’s reply, “ I have 
the word of Princess Julietta 
that it will not be an obstacle to 
our union provided I am for¬ 
tunate enough to win her. She 
has consented, by the use of 
her Wishing-Ring, either to re¬ 
duce herself to my size or to 
increase me to her own. If 
there be no other objection, may 

I beg your Majesty to see that 
my friends are provided for 
and that I have leave to enter 
the contest?” 

No 

Objection 





Julietta 


89 


The King had no other ob¬ 
jection, and place was made for 
the fairy courtiers along the 
railing of the balcony. There 



were no seats for their accom¬ 
modation, but a thoughtful 
court-officer laid his long staff 
on the railing, and it proved to 


Special 

Seats 


A Kind 
Officer 








9 o 

Romero and 

The 

Sports 

Begin 

be just the right height for the 
fairies to sit upon. Then the 
heralds blew their trumpets, 
and the sports began, Prince 
Romero hurrying away to take 
part in them with the rest. 

The object of the sports and 
contests was to exhibit the man¬ 
liness of the competitors in ath¬ 
letic exercises, and to show 
their cleverness in other ways. 
The first event was a proces¬ 
sion, in which the princes, all 
mounted, marched past the 
royal pavilion, saluting. All 
performed this duty gracefully, 
Romero upon his butterfly 
making the most skilful gyra¬ 
tions in the air, and winning 
much applause. The fairy 
prince would have preferred 
his favorite dragon-fly, but that 

Romero 

Applauded 





Julietta 


91 


was his war-charger, and was 
not trained to perform fancy 
evolutions. 

The next event was a race; 
but it was hardly to be called a 
race at all. Prince Romero, 
upon the butterfly, flew around 
the course in half the time it 
took the swiftest of the horses. 
A sulky competitor objected 
that Romero didn’t ride a horse; 
but when the rules of the con¬ 
test were brought they said 
only, “Each competitor may 
choose whatever mount he pre¬ 
fers,” and so the objection was 
overruled, and Prince Romero 
was declared the winner of the 
first of the contests, and prep¬ 
arations for the second were 
made. 

But you may imagine the dis- 


His 

Charger 


Romero 

Wins 




92 


Romero and 


Disgust! 


Romero 

Wins 


gust of the other princes when 
they saw by their programmes 
that the next contest was one 
in high jumping! It was not 
difficult to see who would win 
that — for Prince Romero’s 
butterfly could easily “jump” 
over the tallest tree. Again 
there were objections, so Prince 
Romero, who was the most 
generous of men, consented to 
ride a horse instead of a but¬ 
terfly. 

This, however, did the other 
princes no good; for as he 
weighed about an ounce, 
his horse easily jumped many 
inches higher than any of the 
others could do, and Romero 
was declared the winner of the 
second contest. The third was 
in fencing, and here the others 




Julietta 


93 


hoped they would be able 
easily to overcome the little 
champion. 

They changed their minds 



The 

Swords¬ 

men 


when they came out to draw 
swords against him. Prince 
Romero flew about their heads 
like a great mosquito, only he 


Romero 

Again 





94 


Romero and 


They are was a dozen times quicker, and 
Overcome not nearly so stupid. The 
other princes were almost 
defenceless against him. While 
they were slashing wildly about 
in the air, Romero’s little sword 
was poking them in every un¬ 
guarded spot. Of course, the 
swords were protected at the 
point, for these were fencing 
matches, not duels. The judges 
once more were compelled to 
pronounce Prince Romero the 
victor. 

The dissatisfaction of the 
other princes had become 
greater every moment; and now 
they entered a protest. They 
sent word to the King that they 
did not consider the contest a 
fair one. They were quite 
ready, they said, to compete 


A Protest 




Julietta 


95 


against any of their own size, 
but that it was not reasonable 
to have tQ meet a fairy prince 
no bigger than a bolt for a bow- 
gun. They thought their dig¬ 
nity required them to make this 
protest, and they respectfully 
wished to know what the King 
meant to do about it. So spoke 
the herald they sent. 

Now the Princess Julietta 
had been delighted to see her 
little champion get the better of 
all the rest, and so she was not 
at all pleased by their com¬ 
plaints. Before the King could 
reply she turned very coolly to 
the herald and inquired: “What 
do the princes mean to do about 
it if the King should refuse to 
interfere?” 

The herald replied: “I am 


Romero's 

Size 


What Can 
Be Done? 




96 


Romero and 


Will They 
With¬ 
draw? 


Obliging 

Romero 


not quite certain, Your Royal 
Highness, but I think that they 
will withdraw from the contest 
and march away.” 

“And who would care if they 
did?” said the Princess, turn¬ 
ing away. 

But the King was wiser than 
this. He knew that it would 
make bad feeling if the princes 
should go home with a story 
that they had not been fairly 
treated. So he sent for Prince 
Romero, and asked if there 
could not be some way of 
making the contests seem 
fairer. 

Romero was anxious to 
oblige, and so he thought the 
matter over. At length it oc¬ 
curred to him that it was time 
for the Princess’s Wishing- 




Julietta 


97 


Ring to regain its power, and The Magic 
he resolved to ask Julietta’s Ring 
help. 

“ If your daughter,” said 
Romero, addressing the King, 

“ is willing to exert the power 
of her magic ring, she can wish 
me the right size for a mortal 
prince, and then I would have 
no advantage over the rest. 

Surely that would remove any 
further objection to me.” 

“That seems an excellent 
suggestion,” the King replied, 

“and I hope Julietta will have 
no objection to it. What do you 
say, dear? ” 

“ I should like to exchange a 
few words with Prince Ro¬ 
mero,” said Julietta, beckoning 
to the Fairy Prince. He at once 
flew over to her and hovered 


2—G. 


A Secret 




98 


Romero and Julietta 


She is 
Cautious 


Julietta's 

Choice 


like a humming-bird close to 
her face. 

Then she said to him, in a 
whisper, “ If I make you the 
same size as the rest, do you 
think you can beat them?” 

And Romero replied, close 
to her little pink ear, “My 
dearest Julietta, to win your 
hand I could be stronger than 
the striped tiger, swifter than 
the light-footed antelope, braver 
than the bravest Knight of 
King Arthur’s Round Table! 
Have no fear. I have been to 
consult your Fairy Godmother 
and she assures me that you 
will marry the prince of your 
choice, and that, I am sure, 
can be no other than your ever 
faithful Romero! ” 




A HONEYMOON CHAPTER 


UOFC. 







Romero and Julietta 


IOI 


Romero 
Made Big 


CHAPTER V 
A HONEYMOON CHAPTER 

L this was so 
entirely satis¬ 
factory that 
the Princess 
made the de¬ 
sired wish, 
and at once 
Prince Romero stood before 
them as large as any mortal of 
them all. Immediately a mur¬ 
mur of admiration was heard 
from all the spectators, for the 
Fairy Prince was by far the 
most manly and the handsomest 
of all the royal youths who had 
come to compete for the hand 
of the beautiful Julietta. The 
people all hoped that he would 
win, and were glad to have him 



Handsomest 
of All 




102 

Romero and 

An An¬ 
noyance 

big enough to be seen. It had 
been annoying to have all the 
contests won by a tiny mite 
who was entirely invisible to 
all the spectators of the show. 
Now they believed that they 
would enjoy the spectacle, and 
they eagerly consulted their 
programmes to see what would 
be the next event. 

And this brought out a very 
amusing fact. For the next task 
proposed to test the princes was 
that of hurling a heavy lance. 
Unless Romero had attained 
full human size, he could not 
have made even an attempt to 
lift the weapon; but now that 
he was as large as any of them, 
he was able to do as well as 
the human princes. In fact, he 
did better, for he once more 
won the contest. 

Victory 
Once More 





Julietta 


103 


I know it is rather monoto¬ 
nous to have Romero win every 
time, but I don’t see how it is 
to be helped, for it is only the 



simple truth that in all the con¬ 
tests Prince Romero came out 
ahead, and at the end of the 
day it had to be announced 


Monot¬ 

onous 


But 

Necessary 


















104 


Romero and 


Romero that he was the successful con- 
Wins testant, the winner of the hand 

of the Princess Julietta, and 
therefore the heir to the King¬ 
dom. 

So in order to carry out the 
programme as it had been ar¬ 
ranged, Prince Romero 
crowned Julietta the Queen of 
Love and Beauty, and then 
rode by her side in the great 
procession that marched from 
the Fair-grounds to the Palace, 
surrounded on all sides by 
cheering boys and beautiful 
maidens strewing the streets 
with flowers. 

That night a grand banquet 
was held in the Palace, and the 
winning Fairy Prince was so 
very charming even to the de¬ 
feated princes that before the 


He Charms 
All 




Julietta 


105 


evening was over they all joined 
in a grand chorus, singing, 
“ For he’s a jolly good fellow, 
which nobody can deny!” 
and wound up by giving Ro¬ 
mero and Julietta nine rousing 
cheers, ending in a “tiger!” 
that made the Palace walls 
ring again. 

Of course this put every one 
in the very best of humor, and 
then it was agreed that the 
wedding should be celebrated 
the very next day, for all the 
princes wished to see it, and 
many of them had to go home 
the day after. So the wedding 
ceremony was appointed for 
the next day, at just about 
noon; and by that time the 
princes had made themselves 
so charming to the maids of 


A Jolly 
Chorus 


The 

Wedding 




106 

Romero and 

A General 
Wedding 

honor, and the younger prin¬ 
cesses, and the other young 
ladies about the court that they 
all were engaged to be married, 
and it was resolved to have all 
the weddings take place at the 
same time. 

You can imagine what a grand 
occasion that was. And all the 
fairies who had come with 
Prince Romero were just wish¬ 
ing that they were the same size 
as the rest of the people so they 
could dance and feast and talk 
and promenade, when the Fairy 
Godmother of Julietta arrived, 
changed them into just the size 
they wished to be, and thus 
added immensely to the pleas¬ 
ure of the occasion. 

When the twenty-four young 
couples came down the aisle 


A Kind 
Godmother 




Julietta 


107 


together (I think there were 
just two dozen), people said 
that there had never been a 
prettier sight than all those 



proud bridegrooms and those 
blushing brides. And such a 
surprise awaited them at the 
door of the church. Instead 


What 

People 

Said 


A Surprise 





108 

Romero and 

A Grand 
Change 

1 

of the carriages they had ex¬ 
pected to take for their wed- 
ding-journeys, they saw only 
Julietta’s Fairy Godmother, 
who waved her wand over the 
heads of each couple as they 
appeared. At once the couples 
were all reduced to fairy size, 
and then came a great proces¬ 
sion of small butterflies, and, 
mounting upon these, the brides 
and grooms were whisked away 
to Fairyland to spend their 
honeymoons. 

This was Prince Romero’s 
idea, and it proved to be a de¬ 
lightful one. In Fairyland all 
was new to most of them, and 
everything was done to make 
their stay there happy. There 
were dances by moonlight, 
there were banquets every day. 


A Fairyland 
Honeymoon 




Julietta 


109 


There were skating-parties one 
day, and picnic-parties the next, 
for the fairies could arrange 
the weather to suit them¬ 
selves, so that they enjoyed 
snowballing and flower-pick¬ 
ing whenever they chose. 

But even more important 
than the pleasures of the visit 
were the lessons in government 
learned by the princes. They 
saw how wisely the King of the 
Fairies ruled his kingdom, and 
each one secretly resolved to 
rule so wisely that he would be 
distinguished in history by hav¬ 
ing “ the Good ” put after his 
name. 

Before long, however, the 
Princess Julietta longed to re¬ 
turn to her own land, and her 
gallant husband, Prince Ro- 


Their 

Amuse¬ 

ments 


Julietta's 

Wish 




I IO 


Romero and 


Packing 

Up 


mero, saw that she would be 
glad to see her people once 
more. So he went one day to 
their apartments and ordered 
all their baggage to be packed 
and sent back to the palace. 
(It seemed quite large to him, 
but two match-boxes would 
have held it all.) Then he told 
Julietta what he had done, and 
it was arranged that the visiting 
bridal couples should depart 
the next day. 

On their return to the Big 
People’s World both resumed 
once more the usual size, and 
except for their lovely disposi¬ 
tions and unusual beauty, it 
would have been difficult to 
believe that either had ever 
known what it was to dwell 
among the fairies. 


Big People's 
World 




Julietta 


hi 


As to the Wishing-Ring, Ju¬ 
lietta hid it carefully away, for 



she said she was perfectly 
happy and had nothing more 
to wish for. 


* 


Nothing 

More 


To Wish 
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